Excerpt from Rontgen Ray Diagnosis and Therapy
Literature upon the application of the Rontgen rays has become very extensive. Many contributions have been made during the last few years, and a number of splendid text-books, like those of Morton, Gocht, Muller, Donath, Williams, Walsh, and Albers-Schoenberg, were written on this fascinating subject. Still none of those standard works, while indispensable for the Rontgen-ray worker, treats the large field from a strictly clinical view-point. To demonstrate how the Rontgen rays can best be utilized in medical and surgical practice has therefore been the author's aim. This desire underlies the continuous allusion to clinical points, and especially the numerous illustrations of therapeutic means. It entailed representation of methods (operative steps, application of splints, etc.), which at first glance may appear foreign to a treatise on the Rontgen rays. But on a closer study it will be evident that these can be understood only on the basis of an exact knowledge of the new science.
While these factors are the predominating feature of the book, the technical points are not neglected. They are of so complicated a nature that they require special study, as do the microscope, the laryngoscope, the ophthalmoscope, asepsis, etc. The employment of the apparatus must be mastered and the complicated rationale of the various changes in the tubes thoroughly understood.
In the general part the author has tried to furnish a guide for practical work, emphasizing the essential points only. Thus he refrained from discussing the elementary principles of electricity and from describing the large number of apparatus in the market because they are thoroughly advertised and explained by the various firms interested. So much may be said, however, that nearly all of them are useful, as long as they are in good order.
As this book is written for physicians, great stress has been also laid on topographic anatomy.
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